Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3758
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَعْلَى، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الشَّرِيدِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ أَنْشَدْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مِائَةَ قَافِيَةٍ مِنْ شِعْرِ أُمَيَّةَ بْنِ أَبِي الصَّلْتِ يَقُولُ بَيْنَ كُلِّ قَافِيَةٍ " هِيهِ " . وَقَالَ " كَادَ أَنْ يُسْلِمَ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
It was narrated that ‘Amr ibn al-Sharid said that his father said: I recited to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ one hundred poetic lines by Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt. Between each line, he would say, ‘Go on!’ He also said, ‘He nearly embraced Islam.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic specifies one hundred qawāfī, meaning poetic lines or rhyming units; the English witness calls them verses. I have rendered the number and poetic sense without imposing a verse structure.